She swims into the medals and then into oblivion a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer. This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. Its a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a worldclass swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting haste If taken on its own terms as an intense and focused portrait it is simply staggering a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it. It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should.

Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 256.98 g; Dimensions: N/A

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